In all honesty, anyone who had been hoping/expecting for a bunch of changes/tweaks to various designs will be gravely disappointed. Most changes (if any) are few and at the most are pretty subtle, consisting mostly of the adding or the removing of stripes. The Minnesota Wild were the only team to get a full-on brand new design/look (which, by the way = ), while Edmonton and Colorado switched to older/retro-inspired looks (Edmoton went with the orange jerseys that they been using as their 3rd jersey this past season, Colorado adopted a design reminiscent of the jerseys they had when they first moved from Quebec City).

Oh, and Vegas' jersey looks pretty bleh, IMO. Make the main torso part black instead of grey and it would look much better.

News came out earlier this week that Ottawa Senators goalie Craig Anderson had been given a leave of absence due to a "personal matter". It has now been announce that the "personal matter" is that his wife, Nicholle, has been diagnosed with cancer.

~SNIP~

#FuckCancer, #FightCancer

A bit of a follow-up. Nicholle is currently cancer-free and she's recently been appointed as the NHL's Ambassador for their "Hockey Fights Cancer" movement.

So around the start of this season, the NHL launched a website (https://greatestnhluniforms.com) calling for fans to vote for the greatest NHL uniform/jersey of all time. Now remember the fact that it's a FAN VOTE. So while there will be a lot of votes based on actual aesthetic reasoning, there are (no doubt) many, many more that are just people wanting to pick their personal favorites.

Anyways, the final results are in (I'm actually kinda peeved that the site launched by the NHL only lists the Top 25 vote-getters):

The Golden Knights have decided the number 58 will never be worn. Tonight we fly 58 stars in the sky as a reminder that those fallen in the events of One October will always be with us. Long may their light shine. We are, and always will be, #VegasStrong

went to the Summit Show - a sports card show in town FUCK!! Met Jari Kurri and Esa Tikkanen so kind and gracious I was geeked up like a lil school girl what are the odds of meeting these two LEGENDS!

Shook his hand dropped a Kiitos! and he said something like ole hyvä??? But he was like all business when I threw in a Suomi Perkele

I was totally hungover and just talking shit with Kurri, the line wrapped up and he was just waiting and I was waiting for my photo to print. So I'm like YO check out my site, run by Finns, most Finns in the world and gave him my jphip business card I gave him 2 he gives me back 1 fuckin pockets it so we still standing and I'm like do you like kebab in a total Finnish accent but he's like what? I'm like what's your favourite food and he's like Finnish meatballs and I'm like what's the difference between dem Ikea Swedish meatballs and he's like DAAAAAAMN LMFAO

Tikkanen was super nice too I think he cracked up at Suomi Perkele but dude super nice. You usually have to be a big time season ticket holder to meet these guys up close even though they do come to town often for reunion events, this might be the last one for a while GO OILERS GO!!!!

So during the playoffs, the NHL does a documentary series that they title "Quest For The Stanley Cup". During said series they have crews following the teams playing in the various playoff brackets and this year, they have released the first 2 episodes on their YouTube channel (hopefully with the rest to follow). Only problem is, it says on their YouTube channel that the episodes are "Canada Only". No idea why they're region-blocking like that, but episodes of the series is apparently supposed to be airing every Friday on ESPN in the States, and chances are some streams will be popping up sooner or later.